"The changes mean the existing motor will need extra cooling to deal with the extra power."

So it's pulling more juice...

Any news on the reduced battery range this must cause?

Give it 5 years and the magazines will be full of articles on how to showhorn in a Ford V4 instead, once the batteries won't hold a charge.

Unless they're testing the power stations, that shouldn't have been much of a challenge.

naw, more likely he'd get stomped by a company selling a crappier less sophisticated version called the "Edison". And then they'd start going off on weird tangents and build a car that supposedly had antigravity, worked by firing lightning bolts at it from roadside towers, and other deranged pipe dreams, which would only serve to give the "Edison" car company real ammunition to use against him.

The real problem with real genius. Most of it is insanity, the trick is recognizing the good stuff, and not letting the bad stuff overshadow the good things.

Yep, that's his name. You have to have a stupid name to co-found something stupid like PayPal.